The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 1, sentence 5
The children who read fairy books, or have fairy books read to them, do not read prefaces, and the parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins, who give fairy books to their daughters, nieces, and cousines, leave prefaces unread.
Who acts: children, parents · What happens: read, have, not read, give, leave · To what, where: fairy books, books, prefaces, daughters
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, parents), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 children | det |
| 2 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 read | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 read | nsubj |
| 4 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 children | acl:relcl |
| 5 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 books | compound |
| 6 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 read | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 read | conj |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 books | compound |
| 11 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 read | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 read | punct |
| 16 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 read | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 read | advmod |
| 18 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 read | conj |
| 19 | prefaces | preface | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 read | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 leave | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 leave | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 parents | det |
| 23 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 leave | nsubj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 aunts | punct |
| 25 | aunts | aunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 parents | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 uncles | punct |
| 27 | uncles | uncle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 parents | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cousins | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 cousins | cc |
| 30 | cousins | cousin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 parents | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 give | punct |
| 32 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 give | nsubj |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 parents | parataxis |
| 34 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 books | compound |
| 35 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 give | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 daughters | case |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 daughters | nmod:poss |
| 38 | daughters | daughter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 give | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 nieces | punct |
| 40 | nieces | niece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 daughters | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 cousines | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 cousines | cc |
| 43 | cousines | cousine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 parents | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 parents | punct |
| 45 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 read | conj |
| 46 | prefaces | preface | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 leave | obj |
| 47 | unread | unread | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 leave | xcomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | present | the children | fairy books | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | the children not said here | fairy books | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Patient | ||||
| 3 | read | present | the children | books = book | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | not read | infinitive · do-support | the children not said here | prefaces | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preface=Topic | ||||
| 5 | give | present | the parents and aunts and uncles and cousins and cousines | fairy books | parents's daughters and nieces | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent book=Theme to daughter=Recipient | |||
| 6 | leave | infinitive | the parents and aunts and uncles and cousins and cousines | prefaces | unread property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent preface=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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